COP30 is the 30th annual UN climate meeting, where governments discuss how to limit and prepare for further climate change. COP stands for "Conference of the Parties". "Parties" refers to the nearly 200 countries that signed up to the original UN climate agreement in 1992.

Brazilian police hit the Rio gang hard in a raid that left 119 dead, and which human rights groups called a "disaster."

By Rhett Ayers Butler As the world’s attention turns toward COP30 in Belém next month, the story of Brazil’s Amazon is shifting—though not quite in a straightforward way. According to the government’s satellite-based monitoring system,

COP30 is being held in Belem, in the Brazilian Amazon – so it’s the perfect opportunity to ramp up action to end deforestation, a critical component of tackling the climate crisis. Many countries, including Brazil, committed to ending deforestation by 2030 at COP26 in Glasgow, but so far progress has been slow.

A state police operation targeting a major drug gang in Brazil has resulted in the deaths of 132 people in low-income neighbourhoods in Rio de Janeiro – the deadliest raid in the country’s history.

Five Senate Republicans voted with Democrats on Tuesday night to pass a resolution terminating President Trump’s emergency authority to impose steep tariffs on Brazil, one of the biggest exporters

When a community is destroyed by a climate event, be it flooding, fires, or drought, the questions that follow are always the same: how do we recover? And how do we rebuild?

Brazil’s government says deforestation in the Amazon fell 11% in the year through July 2025 to its lowest level in nearly a decade, helped by stronger enforcement and monitoring.

With less than two weeks to go before it hosts the COP30 global climate summit, Brazil announced Thursday that forest loss in the Amazon fell by 11.1% compared with the previous year, despite the rainforest experiencing record wildfires.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has fallen for the fourth straight year, the government said Thursday, a boost for the country just days before it hosts UN climate talks.